Ireland

iOS Engineering

Bachelor's degree

Ahmed M. Hassan

Senior iOS Engineer II

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Team player

Leadership

Project management

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Swift

ChatGPT

CircleCI

GitLab

Google Analytics

REST API

Jira

Design systems

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Alongside my Senior iOS Engineer role, I embraced additional leadership and technical responsibilities, including:

• Led a team of iOS engineers in Egypt, providing mentorship and fostering a collaborative environment to deliver Tempo's AI projects successfully.
• Worked closely with product, design, and QA teams to align on timelines and deliverables.
• Conducted code reviews to maintain high-quality standards and improve testability.
• Adopted new technologies (Swift 6 - SwiftUI - SwiftTesting) and tools to enhance app performance and team efficiency.
• Maintaining Datadog to monitor app performance and resolve issues proactively.
• Managed app release cycles, from planning to App Store submission and post-release monitoring.
• Hosted workshops on topics like SwiftUI, Swift Testing, and app optimization to upskill team members.
• Optimized Bitrise build process, reducing build time from approximately ~21 to ~14 minutes by implementing efficient caching strategies and streamlining workflows.
• Optimized the iOS build process, reducing incremental build times from ~50 seconds to ~3 seconds, significantly enhancing developer productivity.

• Led the development of Phone Only Workouts, conducting comprehensive research and defining a gold-standard TRD, which improved the efficiency of Tempo’s workout experience for users on the phone.
• Spearheaded the Flexible Home project by introducing modular HomeSectionBuilder and HomeFilterableCardObserver, making it easier to integrate new features into the home screen and enhancing the personalized user experience.
• Enhanced the TempoUI framework, co-developing key components like the Carousel View and Custom Video Player, and introduced reusable UI elements that streamlined design consistency across the app like Pagination Controller to handle infinite scrolling.
• Substantially increased Unit Test coverage for the Apple Watch (from 20% to 70%), contributing to a more stable and reliable app experience. 
• Established new unit testing patterns to align with Modern Concurrency, AsyncStreamed, reducing flaky test rates.
• Demonstrated proactive leadership in bug management by consistently identifying and resolving critical issues, including UI layout adjustments and root cause analysis for backend errors, thereby enhancing the app's stability and responsiveness.
• Mentored junior engineers, fostering skill development and knowledge-sharing, and promoted best practices in clean architecture and reusable component design, reinforcing Tempo's technical standards and enhancing team efficiency.

🏆 Top 10% performer in 2023.

• Contributed extensively to the Tempo 2.0 redesign, focusing on refining the Class Intent and implementing advanced UI loading styles that remain integral to the app’s polished look and feel.
• Led the implementation of the Apple Watch rewrite, improving performance and functionality across key metrics while significantly increasing connectivity and test coverage. Established dashboards and monitoring frameworks that provide essential insights for product stability.
• Designed and developed enhancements for the Progress Hub, introducing the training plans and completed programs section to better engage users and support their fitness journey.
• Championed CI success by initiating a project to address and fix flaky iOS tests, improving the continuous integration pipeline's reliability.
• Demonstrated strong collaboration and communication skills, efficiently handling incident response and coordinating with the backend team to swiftly address and resolve high-priority issues.

🏆 Top contributor to Swvl iOS Customer App in 2022.

■ Key Responsibilities
- Collaborating with designers, product managers, and other engineers to ensure the best searching and booking experience.
- Delivering, testing, checking code quality, reviewing colleagues' code, and writing down documentation.
- Support development teams and retail squad in decision-making.
- Contribute to the vision and long-term strategy of the iOS chapter.
- Influence and contribute to iOS architecture across the engineering organization.

■ Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop and implement technical solutions to projects’ needs and requirements.
- Coordinate with architects, business analysts, and the backend team to determine functionalities.
- Develop, maintain and document design, source base, and architecture.
- Delegating tasks to team members.
- Performing coding assignments, reviewing and improvising code.
- Run tests and fix bugs.
- Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and technology developments.

■ Key Responsibilities:
- Involved in all stages of application development including design, modifications, development, and implementation of mobile applications to ensure the application's quality and efficiency.
- Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications using tools like Instruments.
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
- Work with the designers and QC engineers to realize, build, and test the applications and to implement server APIs and services to support planned mobile functionality.
- Conduct learning sessions with the mobile team to get in touch with the latest industry updates.

The web & Mobile Applications Development track aims to graduate professional world-class Mobile applications developers capable of using different mobile applications development technologies (Android and iOS). In addition, arming them with the ability to build their back end and web tier using Spring Framework and Java EE different APIs

🥇 Ranked first in the track.
🏆 Graduation Project: Et3am – Selected as one of the top 10 projects in Egypt.

– Operates the business within the company's mission statement.
– Reviewing and approving equipment needs.
– Decides budgets for all operations and controls finance.
– Finding suppliers and maintaining a good working relationship.
– Control the right amount of stock to meet customers' needs.

– Create the UI design for the websites we operate.
– Manage stock levels, delivery times, and products cost.
– Analyzing logistical problems and producing new solutions.
– Negotiate with suppliers and ensure customer satisfaction.

Ahmed M. Hassan🇮🇪